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We consider the reconstruction of the interface of compact, connected "clouds" from satellite or airborne light intensity measurements. In a two dimensional setting, the cloud is modeled by an interface, locally represented as a graph, and…

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Several passive microwave satellites orbit the Earth and measure rainfall. These measurements have the advantage of almost full global coverage when compared to surface rain gauges. However, these satellites have low temporal revisit and…

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In this work we propose a satellite specific Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) model capable to obtain a three-dimensional semantic representation (neural semantic field) of the scene. The model derives the output from a set of multi-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Valentin Wagner , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

In the emerging commercial space industry there is a drastic increase in access to low cost satellite imagery. The price for satellite images depends on the sensor quality and revisit rate. This work proposes to bridge the gap between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Saksham Jain , R Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

In recent years, an ever-increasing number of remote satellites are orbiting the Earth which streams vast amount of visual data to support a wide range of civil, public and military applications. One of the key information obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Kang Zhao , Muhammad Kamran , Gunho Sohn

Recent advancements in meteorology involve the use of ground-based sky cameras for cloud observation. Analyzing images from these cameras helps in calculating cloud coverage and understanding atmospheric phenomena. Traditionally, cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijie Li , Hewei Wang , Shaofan Wang , Yee Hui Lee , Muhammad Salman Pathan , Soumyabrata Dev

We introduce FusionRF, a novel framework for digital surface reconstruction from satellite multispectral and panchromatic images. Current work has demonstrated the increased accuracy of neural photogrammetry for surface reconstruction from…

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Clouds in satellite imagery pose a significant challenge for downstream applications. A major challenge in current cloud removal research is the absence of a comprehensive benchmark and a sufficiently large and diverse training dataset. To…

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Modern deep Super-Resolution (SR) networks have established themselves as valuable techniques in image reconstruction and enhancement. However, these networks are normally trained and tested on benchmark image data that lacks the typical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Jack White , Alex Codoreanu , Ignacio Zuleta , Colm Lynch , Giovanni Marchisio , Stephen Petrie , Alan R. Duffy

Optical remote sensing images play a crucial role in the observation of the Earth's surface. However, obtaining complete optical remote sensing images is challenging due to cloud cover. Reconstructing cloud-free optical images has become a…

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Cloud contamination significantly impairs the usability of optical satellite imagery, affecting critical applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and land-use analysis. This research presents a Cloud-Attentive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Trong-An Bui , Thanh-Thoai Le

The description, imagery and interpretation of cloud scenes by remote sensing datasets from Earth-orbiting satellites have become a great debate for several decades. Presently, there are many models for cloud detection and its…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Rehan Siddiqui , Rajinder K. Jagpal , Sanjar M. Abrarov , Brendan M. Quine

In many image processing tasks it occurs that pixels or blocks of pixels are missing or lost in only some channels. For example during defective transmissions of RGB images, it may happen that one or more blocks in one color channel are…

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Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

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Clouds and snow have similar spectral features in the visible and near-infrared (VNIR) range and are thus difficult to distinguish from each other in high resolution VNIR images. We address this issue by introducing a shortwave-infrared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Debvrat Varshney , Claudio Persello , Prasun Kumar Gupta , Bhaskar Ramachandra Nikam

Real-time satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena such as floods, earthquakes, etc. One important constraint of satellite imaging is the trade-off between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Haoqing Li , Bhavya Duvvuri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas

The abundance of gaps in satellite image time series often complicates the application of deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks for spatiotemporal modeling. Based on previous work in computer vision on image inpainting,…

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Cloud detection is an important preprocessing step for the precise application of optical satellite imagery. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based cloud detection method named multi-scale convolutional feature fusion (MSCFF) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhiwei Li , Huanfeng Shen , Qing Cheng , Yuhao Liu , Shucheng You , Zongyi He

Recovering images from optical interferometric observations is one of the major challenges in the field. Unlike the case of observations at radio wavelengths, in the optical the atmospheric turbulence changes the phases on a very short time…

A new resolution enhancement method is presented for multispectral and multi-resolution images, such as these provided by the Sentinel-2 satellites. Starting from the highest resolution bands, band-dependent information (reflectance) is…

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